Taiwanese Industry Sources: Next-Generation iPhone Manufacturing Deal, USB 3.0, iPad Suppliers

[beez1717]

From what i hear, I think that light peek should be able to crush usb 3.0. The only thing is, I KNOW my keyboard or mouse won't need to use either usb 3.0 OR light peek. I have a feeling that USB 2.0 will stick around for a long time because manufacturers will find that they can get all the speed they need for a mouse or keyboard through it.
As for light peek and 3.0? I see 3.0 being rolled out quite soon and that light peek will come out soon thereafter and it will be used for hard drives and crap. I see the industry might get one port for all these technologies and we will see that manufactures will be using the cheapest and lowest costing technology they can, unless they feel they can make more money using a higher speed. For example, for a computer mouse we will still be using USB 2.0, for connecting my printer to my computer we will be using USB 3.0 and for using an external HDD we will use light peek. That's what I see happening.

 

[ericinboston]

The Linux kernel got USB 3.0 device drives around LAST May. (http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2010011902435NWNTSD Folded into general release in September 2009. ) Approaching a year ago. Any OS developer who doesn't have USB 3.0 support in late stages of development now has been hiding under a rock. About a year ago the other chipset vendors pressed Intel to slow roll the USB 3.0 rollout so that alternative USB 3.0 implementation could be available at the roll out ( i.e., so Intel wouldn't have a inherent upper hand and everyone would have to buy the canonical implementation off of them.)
If Apple with a billions in resources availabe can't match the Linux dev team after almost a WHOLE YEAR. That is a beyond sad. That's embarrassing.

True about Linux and Apple. However, even Windows 7 (released Oct 2009) doesn't support it out of the box...it will be supported in the future via a Service Pack.

Not to pick a fight but the world does not run on Linux...nor Apple OS. It runs on Windows. When Windows gets USB 3.0 support, USB 3.0 as an entire offering will take off.

I'm eagerly awaiting USB 3.0 for both my Windows and Mac systems...but I know, in reality, that day won't be till late 2011 or even 2012 for external hard drives to take advantage of USB 3.0...then following the drives will be your average devices like iPods, cameras, video cameras, printers, scanners, etc.

There is zero reason for most mainstream computers in 2011 not to have USB 3.0 on it (unless it is the $299-399 special ; which typically are primarily just selling you 2-3 year old technology. ) You are correct in that in the common case the currently owned computers will have to be 'retired' for USB 3.0 to be ubiquitous.

If it is a standard motherboard option there will be mass adoption. The issue perhaps is where the mass adoption becomes a dominate percentage of the overall market. Yeah that will take years. It shouldn't take years for it to become standard feature though. Lots of folks have been working hard on 3.0 devices for over a year already now.

You can walk into Fry's , Microcenter , or decent motherboard retail store and walk out the door with a USB 3.0 motherboard right now.

Agreed...but consumers don't buy motherboards. They buy computers. And I agree that in 2011 (hopefully) your average $550 Windows pc will include USB 3.0 hardware support and that Macs will support it, also.

 

[MattInOz]

To take advantage of either 3.0 or LightPeak, whichever is implemented in the new iPhone, wouldn't the computer itself have to have that component?

I think both of these are including USB2.0 as a fallback.
So USB 3.0 woud just go as fast as it can with any given cable and host.

Lightpeak has been said to be paired with a USB cable system so not only can it fall back on USB2.0 for data on non-LP devices but can use USB High power to power a number of devices.